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Pistons' Curry preaches tough defensive play - Detroit Pistons Basketball: News, Blogs, Photos, Audio, Schedule & Stats
CHECKING THE PISTONS Camp competition: It's still too soon to pick a winner, but Amir Johnson, Jason Maxiell and Kwame Brown continue to be the front-runners to play in the starting unit. Strategy session: Part of Tuesday morning's practice was spent working on the team's trapping defense. "It ...
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Curry sets the tone with first practice
Detroit Bad Boys — ... Curry put the Pistons through a three-hour practice on Tuesday, the first day of training camp, and from the sounds of things, he’s already making headway in changing the team’s identity. From A. Sherrod Blakely: ...

NBA Essentials: New York Press Freedom
FanHouse — ... stories of the day. 1. Posting and Toasting. The Knicks have given Seth from Posting and Toasting great access to training camp, and Seth is making the most of it. 2. NBA.com. Miami's Erik Spoelstra put the Heat playbook on iPods for the team. 3. You Been Blinded. Download Ron Artest's mixtape. It's inspirational, man. 4. MLive.com, via DBB. The renewed Pistons are knocking each other the [blank] ...

First Cup: Training Camp Wednesday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... A. Sherrod Blakely of Booth Newspapers: "During Tuesday's first practice of training camp, Detroit Pistons forward Amir Johnson had to pick himself off the floor after unsuccessfully battling Kwame Brown for a rebound. Moments later, Arron Afflalo put Richard Hamilton on his back. Soon after that, Afflalo suffered a few scratches on his shoulder and forearm while being defended -- and at one point, was stripped of the ball -- by Will Bynum. And that was just the last 30 minutes of practice. Things look to be quite different under first-year coach ...

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